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Snub
(Snub), n.
1. A knot; a protuberance; a song. [Obs.]
[A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain. Spenser. 2. A check or rebuke; an intended slight. J. Foster.
Snub nose, a short or flat nose. — Snub post, or Snubbing post (Naut.), a post on a dock or
shore, around which a rope is thrown to check the motion of a vessel.
Snub-nosed
(Snub"-nosed`) a. Having a short, flat nose, slightly turned up; as, the snub-nosed eel.
Snub-nosed cachalot (Zoöl.), the pygmy sperm whale.
Snudge
(Snudge) v. i. [Cf. Snug.] To lie snug or quiet. [Obs.] Herbert.
Snudge
(Snudge), n. A miser; a sneaking fellow. [Obs.]
Snuff
(Snuff) n. [Cf. G. schnuppe candle snuff, schnuppen to snuff a candle (see Snuff, v. t., to
snuff a candle), or cf. Snub, v. t.] The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning
or not.
If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of
soup. Swift. Snuff
(Snuff), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snuffed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Snuffing.] [OE. snuffen. See Snuff of a
candle Snuff to sniff.] To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of.
To snuff out, to extinguish by snuffing.
Snuff
(Snuff) v. t.[Akin to D. snuffen, G. schnupfen, schnuppen, to snuff, schnupfen a cold in the
head, schnuppen to snuff also, to snuff Cf. Sniff, Snout, Snub, v. i.]
1. To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff.
He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite. Dryden. 2. To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell.
Snuff
(Snuff), v. i.
1. To inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs and horses. Dryden.
2. To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense.
Do the enemies of the church rage and snuff? Bp. Hall. Snuff
(Snuff), n.
1. The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.
2. Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once.
3. Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a snuffing of the nose. [Obs.]
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